title: Infection control and quality assurance of health services provided in ICU: development of an ICU website.
abstract: The aim of this study is to examine the infections control methods in ICU as well as the issue of quality in health services provided, as they constitute an important quality assurance indicator. Moreover, nowadays the causes of Nosocomial infections are known and so do the measures for their control. There is a need however for an information resource that will promote specialized and general guidelines. The measures include the appropriate use of gloves, cleaning and disinfection of the ICU environment and hand washing which is the most important of all. Therefore an effort was made to develop an easy to navigate webpage with practical and comprehensible clinical guidelines. Additionally, it gives to all visitors the opportunity for further information research with the use of the included links. For the development of the web side existing clinical guide lines were scrutinizes as well as studies that concern the effectiveness of the measures mentioned and for the identification of quality assurance criteria.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Nursing, University of Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: Marianna
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Diomidous
authors.forename: Paraskevi
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ponirou
authors.forename: Zoi
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Mpizopoulou
authors.forename: Vaia
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Tzalera
authors.forename: Aggelos
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mechili
mesh_terms: D003422:Critical Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005060:Europe; D006293:Health Promotion; D017053:Infection Control / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards*; D007362:Intensive Care Units / Q000592:standards*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D064878:Web Browser